DESY
DESY is one of the world's leading accelerator centres and a member of the Helmholtz Association. DESY develops, builds and operates large particle accelerators used to investigate the structure of matter. DESY offers a broad research spectrum of international standing focusing on three main areas: accelerator development, construction and operation; photon science; particle and astroparticle physics.
Thanks to its expertise and worlwide unique diversity of excellent light sources, DESY is a very attractive venue for more than 3000 scientists from over 40 countries a year, and a sought-after partner in national and international cooperations and projects, including the X-ray laser European XFEL in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, the Large Hadron Collider LHC in Geneva, the neutrino telescope IceCube at the South Pole and the International Linear Collider ILC.